Assignment 2 : A scary experience

My cousin Farid has a motorcycle. It is one of those small Japanese machines that called HONDA but it can go quite fast. Going fast is very dangerous. I had this scary experience one night when I rode pillion on my cousin motorcycle at my village.
We were on our way home after watching football match in Indian's nearer to my village. My village was about 3 kilometers from Indian's restaurant. When we left the restaurant we had to proceed slowly and picked our way through cars and other motorcycles but once we were on the main road, we cruised along freely. The modern double-lane road really made traveling breeze.
The trouble with roads is that road users are tempted to speed. We were no different that night. Going at 70 km/h on the road seemed very slow. So I asked my cousin how fast his motorcycle could go. In reply he turned on the power and the motorcycle started to speed up.
The thrill of riding on a fast motorcycle was quite fantastic. The cool night air rushed past my face. Lamp posts, trees, slower cars and motorcycle flashed past us. It was as though I was on a racing track, much like that I had seen on television. I glanced over my cousin shoulder to have a peep at the speedometer. I saw the needle past 100km/h mark! Wow, I thought. I had never sat on a motorcycle that went that fast before.
Suddenly I felt myself lunging forward off my seat. From the corner of my eye I saw a dark shape looming in front of us. The next moment I felt my body launched into space.
One moment I was sitting pillion on a motorcycle, the next I found myself lying on very hard ground. What was this hard ground I was lying on?
I slowly recovered my sense to realize that I had been flung off the motorcycle. I sat up with some difficulty. There was a pain in my left hip. I tried to get up but I could not. I looked around. To my horror I found that I was sitting on the road. My cousin motorcycle lay about 4metres from where I sat.
I looked around desperately. My cousin was right behind me, lying flat on his back and groaning softly. I tried to move to help him but was again reminded by the pain in the hip I could not.
Under the street light I could see a dark blue car with one wheel up on the road divider. The left front door of the car was badly dented. Beside the car was a woman with worried look on her face. I then realized that we must have knocked into the blue car. The collision sent us flying through the air and the car up the divider.
All of a sudden I was blinded by powerful lights. I heard voices talking anxiously and footsteps hurrying in our direction. Other road users had arrived at the scene and they came to help us. The next half hour was a daze. I vaguely remembered being carried into a car. I was felt dizzy. Someone kept saying everything was all right. I then blacked out.
When I came to I found myself lying on a bed. There were other beds around me. I then knew that I was in hospital. My cousin lay on the bed next to me. He had badly cut face. I too had cuts all over my hand, but the worse was my hip which was bruised badly.
Over the next few days my cousin and I had the opportunity to reflect back on our painful lesson. Speeding was not fun but it had terrible consequences as we found out. I always thought that accidents only happen to other people. I realized that it could happen to anyone, even me.

Assignment 1 ; What I hope to be in 10 years time

The 10 year approaches and as usual there are a great hopes, dreams, and resolutions to make for the coming year. In a 10 year’s time, if I am still alive, I will definitely be out of college. I will have join the world of the adults. The whole idea frightens me for I do not know what it is like to be an adult. But I guess I shall just have to find out.
I sit here and can’t help but to think about the many things that I strive to accomplish in my lifetime. Such thoughts as how and where this life is going to take me enter my mind. For me these hopes will be achieved only through a series of well defined hope. For organizational purposes, I have correlated the hopes I expect to, which are: education and career, spirituality, family, love, adventure, and material things. Although these hopes will server their purpose as a type of road map of which path I should follow, true happiness is found in the spontaneity along the way. I personally believe a well developed education should come first. It serves as a foundation for almost everything that one will experience in life. My more immediate hopes are those that pertain to my education weather formal or informal. One of my hopes for the future is to be happy regardless of what I choose to do. I want to be satisfied with my decisions, to be able to accept and forgive, and most of all to be able to live up to the expectations I have for myself. I realize I cannot set my hopes and dreams on the basis of others and I need to achieve things for myself. I will only accomplish my hope in being happy when I am able to live my life for myself and still able to provide love and support to others.
Hopefully I will have completed my college education and started to work. This is just wishful thinking but it may just come true. I hope to have graduated in one of the professional fields, preferably accounting. Our country is progressing very quickly and I am sure accountant experts will be very much in demand in future. I hope to be working in large firm that make the most grateful high class work. There I can learn many few things about the accounting world and thus keep myself in tune with the leading edge of the accounting.
I hope that accountants will be even better paid in the future than today. They thought to be for they are brilliant people leading the world towards the future. With my pay I hope to be able to buy a big house, a sport car, a ‘superbike’ and many things as I can. I like to do all of these things, but as student now I can only dream. In a 10 year’s time perhaps all these things can materialize. As a young man I will be actively involved in many activities such as travelling and music. I hope to be able to travel overseas during my annual leave. Perhaps my company may even send me overseas to work at there. That will be just wonderful, having the opportunity to see other places and getting paid for it. I hope I will still good in music as I am now. I hope to be a famous musician in the country. Representing the country may be too ambitious, but if I train hard, who knows what I am capable of. If I do not represent the country at least I still can play with my friends. A lot of laughed when I’m dreaming about this.
Another hope of mine what I hope to be in 10 years time is I would like to be a role model to all the young kids out there to never give up hope. Someday, I will reach my destination in life when I earn my degree and from there it will. My other hope is to give my mother a better life than what we have now. They deserve the best and I would like to offer that to them when I finish my education. I believe nothing is impossible in this world as long you are determined to make it possible. If I don't finish college and if I don't strive for my very best I would amount to be nothing to this world and it will not open any or new doors in my life.
There will also be time for socialising and getting to know people. I suppose I will have ample opportunity to do so in a company that employs hundreds of people. Later on I hope to get married with someone that I really love. She exactly the one I need and I are dreaming of her and settled down comfortably. We will plan to have a few children whom we will provide with the best of things. It will be a great life with my family.
Further than the next few years I cannot really hope too much. Life is unpredictable. Things may not turn out as hoped. Hopes can be shattered as I have seen happen to adults around me. All I can do is to hope for the best do what is necessary. Perhaps then the life that I hope to be leading will come to pass. I love my life, I enjoy my life and I’m proud of it. Only resolutions can be kept, to a certain degree of success. Lastly I resolve to keep these few resolutions. Previously, I used to make tons of resolutions which I had no chance nor attention of keeping. So I was just bluffing myself in making many dreamful resolutions. This state of affairs has to stop or I will keep bluffing myself. A few hopes and dreams are far easier to remember and so to keep than a dozen which are quickly forgotten and thus are impossible to keep.
So the old year gradually draws to a close and 10 year appears. It is which determination and courage that I shall strive to keep my dreams, hopes, and not let them drop away like so many useless words. I will do everything as long as all that I hope to be in 10 years time will be come true. Without a nice starts from today, they will be not a great for tomorrow.